The San Andreas Fault is a major fracture of the Earth’s crust on the western coast of North America. The fault trends northwestward for more than 800 miles from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California‚ passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San Francisco. Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path‚ including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906‚ a less
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Table of Contents 1 Statement of independent work 2 2 Preface‚ Introduction 3 3 History‚ Development and Policies 5 4 Recent results 5 4.1 Meeting in Tampere 6 4.2 Schäuble-Sarkozy paper 6 5 Living Europe Safely – Work program for the German EU Presidency (1.1.07–30.6.07) 8 5.1 Fighting illegal migration; preventing visa fraud 8 5.2 Improving returns 8 5.3 Protecting refugees – expanding cooperation 8 5.4 Managing legal immigration 9 5.5 Protecting the external borders – strengthening
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Outline strategies adopted to control food production in the EU and comment on their effectiveness. The E.U’s main strategy for managing food production the Common Agricultural Policy (C.A.P) was emplaced in 1957‚ its purpose was to increase production to stabilise food markets‚ to increase food security and to provide consumers with food at reasonable prices. The C.A.P has been very successful in fulfilling its purpose so much so that now rather than encouraging the growth of food production it
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and the EU Britain have had a long and complicated relationship to the EU since it was established‚ to Britain joined the EU and until today. Britain joined the EU or the European Community as it was called then in 1973. Two years after there was a referendum in Britain about whether they should stay in the union or not. 66% voted to stay‚ and this was the last referendum Britain have had about staying or leaving the EU. In 1991 the Maastrict Treaty was signed‚ this treaty said that the EU should
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Should the UK leave the EU? The European Union made up of united countries whose governments work together. Each country has to pay money to be a member‚ and mostly do this by taxes to ensure they receive certain benefits. The money contributed by each country is used to change the way in which people live and do business in Europe. The intention of the EU is to unify people in Europe‚ however it is often debated whether or not being a member of the EU is beneficial for the UK. Many people believe
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the term EU-15 is used to describe the states which made up the EU before the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. The issue that is being discussed relates to the economic impact of this enlargement round on the European Union. For practical reasons only some aspects of the economic impact on the European Union will be discussed. This seems to be an important issue since the 10+2 round brings countries into the European Union which GDP and thus the standard of living is far below average of the EU-15. The
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TARGET MARKETING As of now‚ San Miguel Light’s target market is old people or those people (specifically men) who are married and who are 30 years old and above. Most of them are also from the higher class or the social class A and B. But for our expanded target market‚ we would like to include young teens (specifically ladies). If you ask an 18-year old lady what they would rather drink‚ vodka or San Miguel Light‚ they’d choose the vodka since it is ‘stronger’ and at the same time it tastes better
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NAFTA/EU The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Mexico‚ Canada and the United States. It creates a three way trade bloc in North America. The agreement was made on January 1‚ 1994. The trade bloc is the largest in the world as of 2010. The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states which are located mainly in Europe. Its capital is de facto Brussels. The EU operates through a system of independent institutions
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Influence of the EU on Democracy in the UK One of the objectives of the creation of the European Union was to develop a single market and remove trading barriers so there would be standardisation of technical regulations and convergence of conditions between European markets. With this in mind‚ it saw the need for employers and employees to work together in order to achieve this. The main statement of the European social policy is the Social Charter (approved by 11 of the then 12 member states)
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policy-making process has been progressively improved over the years. Such improvements were mainly due to the several treaties revision. Even though the EP does not formally propose EU legislation‚ it takes on an important function in the EU’s legislative and budgeting processes. The EP works closely together with two other main EU institutions which are the European Commission and the Council of ministers. Common assembly In 1952‚ the current EP was found as the Common Assembly of ECSC and then it was
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